Fever House: A Novel (Fever House Duology)

ISBN: 0593595777

Author: Rosson, Keith

Condition: New

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.Rossons novel plays out like a nightmare-one thats nearly impossible to put down.-TorThe unsettling darkness of Joe Hill meets the cryptic mystery of The X-Files.-Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The ViolenceA WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWhen leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the clients refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutchs tail, more of the citys residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . .But its all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband-suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutchs boss.When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life theyve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead-secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanitys survival.Can you resist the hand? Find an excerpt from the next Fever House novel at the end of the book.